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<h1 class="topictitle1">Manually Executing Backup</h1>
<div><p>If you want to perform a backup immediately, you can manually perform the backup.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Context</h4><ul><li>During the execution of a manual backup job, the parameters (except <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_uicontrol1201136142020"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_text15553125114208"><strong>Automatic Retry</strong></span></b></span>) defined in the SLA, such as <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_uicontrol69418101243"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_text9181141134816"><strong>Rate Limiting Policies</strong></span></b></span> and <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_uicontrol1449317132247"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839239769_text99421950174113"><strong>Automatic Indexing</strong></span></b></span>, will take effect.</li><li>Copies generated by manual backup are retained for the duration defined in the SLA.</li><li>If a replication or archive policy has been defined in the SLA, the <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text5659141105915">OceanProtect</span> will perform replication or archiving once based on the SLA when you perform manual backup.</li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Precautions</h4><ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839159869_ul4258175217589"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839159869_li4259195214589">For a NAS share discovered through device registration, if the NAS share has authentication information, complete the configuration by referring to <a href="en-us_topic_0000001792520466.html">Step 3: Configuring NAS Share Information</a>. Otherwise, the backup fails.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839159869_li13259752185815">For an NFS share, ensure that the current device has the read and write permissions on the NFS share directory and the <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839159869_b576222612114">no_root_squash</strong> option is enabled. For details about how to configure NFS share access permissions, see <a href="en-us_topic_0000001839239777.html">Step 5: Configuring Access Permissions</a>.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839159869_li14971124445917">For a CIFS share, ensure that the current device has the read and write permissions on the CIFS share directory. You are advised to use a username in the Administrator group for backup. Otherwise, only files and directories that have granted the read and write permissions to the device can be backed up. For details about how to configure CIFS share access permissions, see <a href="en-us_topic_0000001839239777.html">Step 5: Configuring Access Permissions</a>.</li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_uicontrol79081114124111"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_text99081414144119"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; File Systems &gt; NAS Shares</b></span>.</span><p><div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_note397892312184"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_p5978112341818">For 1.5.0, choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_uicontrol129783237180"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_text10978172391818"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; File Services &gt; NAS Shares</b></span>.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>In the row where a NAS share to be protected resides, click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span> </b></span>.</span><p><div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_p870125314544">You can select multiple resources to perform manual backup in batches. Select multiple resources and choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_uicontrol14182155715711"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text662114113158"><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792360698__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text1068159191519"><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span></b></span> in the upper left corner of the page.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>Set the name of the copy generated by the manual backup.</span><p><p>If this parameter is left empty, the system sets the name to <strong>backup_</strong><em>Timestamp</em> by default.</p>
</p></li><li><span>Select a protection policy.</span><p><ul><li>If <span><strong>Small File Aggregation</strong></span> is not configured for NAS share protection, the protection policy can be set to <span><strong>Full backup</strong></span> or <span><strong>Forever Incremental (Synthetic Full) Backup</strong></span>.</li><li>If <strong><span><strong>Small File Aggregation</strong></span></strong> is configured for NAS share protection, the protection policy can be set to <strong><span><strong>Full backup</strong></span></strong> or <strong><span><strong>Incremental backup</strong></span></strong>.</li></ul>
</p></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b>OK</b></span>.</span></li></ol>
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